“We Are Winning: Three Genres, Two Wars, Two Colonels, and a General” by Dick Bennett, College English Association, March 25, 2010
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/we-are-winning-three-genres-two-wars.html We watch the ways the wars are reported, trying to understand empire. From the many, I have chosen examples from three genres for comment. First, an Associated Press report of the war in Afghanistan. This cheerleading article describes a US battalion commander in Afghanistan in 2009 considered to be a success against the insurgency by General Petraeus himself, architect of counter-insurgency, who visits with congratulations. Second, in my local newspaper a series of 66 page-one “Salutes to American Valor” of combat medal-winners in the Iraq and Afghan wars. The 66 narratives of fearsome combat anecdotes signify, at […]
